USB File Transfer is the fastest and the easiest way to put files to GoodReader from your computer. Unlike with WiFi File Transfer, there's no need to go through a complicated WiFi setup process, and a frustration of WiFi network troubleshooting. While you can use Apple's way of transferring files via iTunes program (see directions below), we strongly encourage you to use a much more advanced USB file transfer using our own free computer program called GoodReaderUSB, which will give you a significant advantage: Advanced USB file transfer using GoodReaderUSB computer program

no need to have iPad and/or iOS 4. This method works with all eligible devices - iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, with all OS versions starting from 3.0, and with all available versions of GoodReader app - GoodReader for iPad, GoodReader for iPhone, GoodReader Lite for iPhone.

The app GoodReader is still there, and the desktop app is available for download using the original links, but all references have been removed on the goodi.ware website.

I can't honestly say what the difference is, but GoodReaderUSB bypasses the need to use the crappy iTunes interface to get access to (read and write, including subdirectories) the GoodReader app space using the normall USB cable connection.

I only need to access GoodReader's sandbox. What does iPhone Explorer do? Do you have to be jail broken?

First of all, I was wrong! It happens once in a while, but I try not to make a habit out of it! iPhone Explorer still exists. It is not an app, but a PC program that gives you access to your file structure.

I learned about iPhone Explorer from Stanza and it works on an "unmodified" iPad. They recommend it as one of the ways to get content from your computer on to your iDevice. However, with the latest version of Stanza, you can drag your content right into the Stanza app on iTunes without having to go through all this... but you can if you still want to.

For some reason, I was thinking there was a separate program called GoodReaderUSB. No wonder I couldn't find it! For some reason, I never scrolled that far down on the Apps tab to see that option for the GoodReader program that I have had all along. It seems I can also drop stuff into Stanza and CineXPlayer the same way. Man I love this forum!

There once was a free program for PCs and macs called GoodReaderUSB. It allowed you to easily transfer files from the computer it was installed on to a connected iPhone or iPad. It meant that you didn't have to go through iTunes, as long as you also had the GoodReader app installed on your idevice.

A few months ago the company who made it (Goodiware) took it off their website for some reason. However, I've just discovered that you can still get it if you look for it.

It looks like an extremely useful program to me. Does anybody here think it would be a bad idea for me to download, install and use it?

There once was a free program for PCs and macs called GoodReaderUSB. It allowed you to easily transfer files from the computer it was installed on to a connected iPhone or iPad. It meant that you didn't have to go through iTunes, as long as you also had the GoodReader app installed on your idevice.

A few months ago the company who made it (Goodiware) took it off their website for some reason. However, I've just discovered that you can still get it if you look for it.

It looks like an extremely useful program to me. Does anybody here think it would be a bad idea for me to download, install and use it?

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The links are not very clear, but they are actually in the original posting... just sort of buried in there, but there are links for both the windows, and Mac version of this software... I d/l both so I can vouch the links are still working. No need to google it...

This is the program I was just talking about over in the Zoom-it thread.

I have it and have used it. *It's an executable file (.exe), not installable. *And very handy.

Marilyn

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Yeah, I know. I just got the feeling that the program had somehow lost its legitimacy for some reason (eg, I couldn't find anything about it on GoodReader's current site) and that you were using a kosher old version of it and... and... Hmm, I'm a bit sick atm and probably not making much sense.

The links are not very clear, but they are actually in the original posting... just sort of buried in there, but there are links for both the windows, and Mac version of this software... I d/l both so I can vouch the links are still working. No need to google it...

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Great, thanks for that Pluto. So you got those programs from Goodireader's "ghost page"? I hope they work just as well as Marilyn's old ones do. I guess they'll probably just be the same files. I don't know why I'm being so paranoid about it all. Probably because it still seems too good to be true. GoodReaderUSB is the discovery of the week for me!

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